Usain Bolt says he wants to break his own 200-metre world record, hoping to run a time under 19 seconds.

In Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, the six-times Olympic champion won the:

100 metre gold

200 metre gold

4×100 metre relay gold

Speaking in Rio, Bolt said he is seeking to secure a “triple-triple” in all three events for the third, and final, time.

“I think that is one of my biggest goals and I think I want to go out there, I think it is the hardest one to try and do, to break the world record and actually to try and run sub-19 seconds, so I think that is my focus and that is what I really want so I am just going out there to do my best,” Bolt said.

He has only run one 200-metre race since, finishing first at the Diamond League meeting in London last month.

Since then, he says he has been working well with his coach.

“It’s been going great. I went back with my coach and analysed the race, he said ‘it was not good, we need to work on it’. So we did a lot of work on the turn and mostly on speed endurance and stuff,” he told Reuters TV.